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NO, WE WON'T HELP YOU OUT There are good neighbors, and then
there are the people who live near Joseph Webb. As the Milwaukee
resident and his wife attended church last Sunday, a burglar broke
into their house to steal all the valuables he could carry. Happily
for the Webbs, however, he was spotted, and word spread quickly up
and down their block. When he tried to leave, he found every avenue
of escape blocked by a citizens posse. Moreover, one of them had
phoned the police, who found the suspect still trapped inside. Said
a neighbor who was part of the group: "We just did what was right."

BUT THE TAX STAYED THE SAME If you're one of those folks who
laugh off the potential of Y2K computer problems, read on. From
Portland, Maine, comes word that one has happened already. State
computers, misreading 2000 as 1900, generated hundreds of titles for
brand-new cars and trucks under the category "horseless carriage" -
the official designation for vehicles built before 1916. Still, Gov. …